About The Hedgehog
and Featherboards.com
Brex International, LLC is a small business located in Knoxville, Tenn. We design and produce quality products for professional and hobbyist woodworkers to help them be more productive and to work safer.
Our maiden product was the Hedgehog spiral featherboard which is unlike any featherboard that has come before it. Since the Hedgehog Featherboard, I’ve launched the Push Block, The Mini Hedgehog hold-down fence featherboard, and now the 4-inch Ball Valve.
I am Brett Burdick. I’ve been designing and patenting consumer products for over 30 years. I am also a woodworker and furniture maker who was frustrated with the traditional 2-knob featherboard so I decided to design a better solution.
The original concept was a product that I designed to help hold the stock tight to the fence on table saws, router tables, and band saws. After 3D printing prototypes and showing them to friends who are professional woodworkers, I was encouraged to address kickback as being equally important. After a few more iterations, what I ended up with is what you see here.
